select 223!

Originally Posted by Araluxie

Oh, yes, of course, I have done this. First select the IOS 222 (or 223, they're separated options) from the configuration menu of the USB Loader GX. Then start through the disc option on the top-right corner. Play the first battle on Subspace Emissary, then it hangs with same error screen.

I've tried it with both IOS. However, IOS 223 prompts me to make sure about having it installed. This was also done before by IOS 222 (I tried USB Loader before installing Hermes, then realized I needed to do it the other way around). IOS 222 doesn't give me a message anymore when selecting it. I followed the guide for offline install from this website: GAF's Wii Homebrew Tutorial: Hermes' Ios222/223 (Sorry if I can't post links, if that's the case please feel free to delete it or tell me. Just trying to make clear what method I used).

cIOS38 rev17 has dual layer support. Hermes cIOS has dual layer support. You will have needed one of them installed before you ripped the retail disc. If you used Hermes cIOS to rip the disc, the you should have used the IOS that you installed as 38 merged with 37. If you downloaded the game then all I can say is try to boot it with one of those IOS's, if it don't work then you may have downloaded a bad rip.

Quite right... if you rip it with a defective cIOS 249, you're game will be defective. This is true both for an original pressed disk, or an image you sourced via questionable means (translation: if you got a pirated version, whaddya think they ripped it with? Only one version I'm aware of in that category works, but we're not going there on this site - sorry).